Emma Raducanu withdraws from another tournament to raise Billie Jean King Cup doubts

Emma Raducanu has pulled out of another tournament due to a foot injury and remains a doubt for next month’s Billie Jean King Cup Finals.

The 21-year-old said she pulled out of next week’s Hong Kong Open because of a shortage of match fitness since spraining ligaments in her foot.

The former US Open champion has now missed five tournaments since suffering the injury in her Korea Open quarter-final against Daria Kasatkina.

Raducanu, who is half Chinese, had targeted an end-of-season run on the hardcourts in Asia but missed the WTA 1000 events in Beijing and Wuhan.

She also withdrew from the Ningbo Open and the Guangzhou Open and will have spent almost two months on the sidelines by the start of the Billie Jean King Cup.

She also withdrew from the Ningbo Open and the Guangzhou Open and will have spent almost two months on the sidelines by the start of the Billie Jean King Cup.

It comes after the tennis ace reportedly had her classy Porsche “taken back” by the luxury car manufacturer.

One of Raducanu’s associates reportedly said: “Emma no longer has a Porsche.

“They took it back. It used to have pride of place at her home.”

But thankfully Raducanu had remained loyal to her Dacia – and is again using her trusty old car.

She has been photographed driving the humble motor around London, as our pictures show.

She kept her faithful Dacia even after Porsche handed her a £125,000 911 Carrera GTS Cabriolet, with a top speed of 192mph in 2022.

Raducanu was given a car after becoming a ‘global brand ambassador’ for the German marque after her maiden Grand Slam title at the 2021 US Open.

But the Bromley star, who is world No.54, was adamant she’d never sell her first car – which was once Britain’s cheapest new vehicle.

She has returned to driving it around town after Porsche took their 911 Carrera back following her slide down the world rankings.

And she has a heart-warming reason to own a cheap and cheerful Dacia.

Raducanu told The Sun in 2022: “My dad is Romanian and a Dacia was his first car. So, yeah, I have a white Dacia Sandero.